The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

charge. who has chewed tobacco for eighty -five
years back, is getting ready for centennial
celebration in August. He's hale ana nearly ae
100.
A STURGIs (NIich.) man placed S16 in green
backs in his stove for safe keeping. The usual
result followed-his wife built a fire in the
stove few days later and the money was
burned.
A GERMAN MATHEaATIcIAN has calculated that
the snowfall of central Germany from Dec. Is
to % weighed no less than 10, 900 tons in the
area between 500 and 52.5o north latitude and
between 70 and 1S' east longitude
A LONDON omnibus conductor who was dis
charged fifteen years ago has just sent the com
pany letter saying that he bad defrauded the
company OF about $50 while IN rs employ
which amount he intended to repay in small in
stalments.
A WRITER in the Boston PiouGhntdle holds
that the briars, thorns, thistles and weeds are
an actual blessing rather than curse, because
they exert a powerful influence in diSsolving the
nutriment contained in the rocks and soil and
preparing it for plants of higher and more
useful nature.
ApopLExY, induced by excessive laughter, was
given at the inquest as the cause of the death OF
a young woman, in Sheffield, Eng, lately. She
had been highly amused at the predicamen into
which neighbor got, and broke into a fit of
laughter which continued until she fell 10 the
terward.
THE Paris Theatre Commission, has resolved
on requiring all scenery and decorations to be
made incombustible within a month, the Pre-
lecture of Police affixing its stamp ON them; 1t
has also decided on requiring that an iron drop
shall be fixed in each theatre in projecting ma
sonry, so that when it is lowered the stage may
be entirely cut off from the auditorium.
EDWARD KING writes from Paris that he knows
Boulanger's appointment as Ambassador to st.
Petersburg, or to some other prominent diplo-
matte or army position, are entirely groundless.
He says: ''Boulanger desires nothing more
than he has had; he wants to work for the gen
eral good; he is true patriot. and too much of
a gentleman to truckle for favor; altogether,
his record is one of the cleanest and most per-
feet that any French politician has had since
Gambetta's time"
AT Mount Vernon, N. Y, few nights ago, a
young woman gave Michael Schwartz, "a burglar,
a pass key to the house in which she was en-
ployed SO that he could enter at night
and rob the premises. Schwartz was caught
while endeavoring to escape with a lot of plum
der. He told the officers how ne had obtained
the pass key and Justice Edmunds, of that
place. before whom the two delinauentS were
arraigned without consulting them as to their
wishes married them then and there, and then
sentenced both to Albany penitentiary for four
months each
SAYS a Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Telegraph: Henry George has a
goodly number of converts in Washington. 1t
is a fertile field for missionary work, and the
seeds McGlynn dropped by the wayside are
already bearing fruit. Many government clerks
have become firm believers in the economy of
Mr.. George, and movement is on foot to form
an Anti-Poverty Society. The prospects are
that the membership viii be large. Men who
have grown musty in the service and never ac-
cumulated anything but large families have
tired of reading the standard workSSn political
economy, which seem to furnish no cure for their
case, and are drinking in George like draught
OF fresh air. Some long and animated discus
sions occur at lunch times and even the women
are interested in the question"
Tom CoRwIN used TO tell in his inimitable way
story about Mr.. Jones, who was running for
Congress in an Ohio district, and who, while fill
ing his round of appointments, made speech, at
the close of which, by way of commencing him
self to the bone and Sinew,' the regular SOW
ereigns" of the country, he said that he was a
self-made man of obscure birth and humble
origin" that in fact he was sprung from 1.-THE
very dregs of the people" ''Why, fellow-citi-
zens, said he, warming up and elevating his
voice, my parents were so poor that when was
is years old my mother had to tie me to the bed
post TO keep me from falling into the fire when
ever she went to the spring for pail of water s.
OF course he Intended to say eighteen months
and Mr.. Corwin, who was present, cried out:
''Oh, Jones, jones' what humping big baby
you must have beenr' The crowd saw the point
of the joke, and Jones broke down at once amid
their jeers,
Extract from the London Court Journal.
'Hon. W. F. Cody buffalo Bib was close
companion of a man named Boone who dis
covered Kentucky in 1869. Mr.. Cody married a
granddaughter of a distinguished gentleman
known as Sitting Bullfrog. Cody was twice
Governor. of Chicago and was at one time
Mayor OF the Arkansas Legislature. He served
in fho 1of
Gen. Butler, who so CALAMITY defended New
Orleans against the threatened invasion of the
Federal Gen. Longstreet. After the war Mr..
Cody went to Congress from the province of
Detroit and introduced a measure for the relief
of the citizens of Buffalo, which gained for him
the name of Buffalo Bill He has contributed
largely to the atlantic Monthly, a newspaper
edited by Mark Twain and Uncle Tom Cabin, a
man who Is mainly noted for his negro dialect
sketches. Mr.. Cody has ranch of many acres
in st. Louis, where he keeps large lot of In
dams and ponies constantly on hand.''
c. T. WARD, of San Francisco, has lately re-
turned from several years residence in Chilli
Among the South American curiosities Mr..
Ward brought back with him is one of the eyes
of Peruvian Inca, which was preserved with
the embalmed body. These curious specimens
of the preservative art are very rare and are
very valuable when they are found entire The
specimen Ill the possession of Mr.. Ward has the
shape of piece of wax that has been cast in a
thimble IL is translucent and of bright golden
color, looking something like colored glass. Few
people who see it for the first time would be
able to discover from its appearance its true
character But even to them it would be sur
rounded by some mystery which they would be
anxious to have revealed. 1t is related that a
Peruvian lady had a collection of thirty or more
eyes of this kind, valued at $4,000, which she
had mounted and Wore as ornaments at ball
in Paris. Efforts have been made to discover
the secret of the art by which the eyes of the
Peruvian monarchs were preserved, but I'D to
this time no chemist has been able to make it
his own. 1t is believed, however, that gold was
one of the materials used, which would account.
perhaps, for the color of the specimen.
THE Indianapolis Nelc Record says June ID
was the twenty fifth anniversary of the ordina-
ton to the priesthood of Bishop Chatard, of the
Diocese Of Vincennes, but because of his
absence in Europe no demonstration would be
made of the love and honor in which he is held
in his diocese Bishop Chatard is son of Dr.
Ferdinand Chatard, of Baltimore. His father
says he has not heard from him since Nav
when he was to have left Rome which he has
probably done, and he is now in some other
part Of Europe. The Bishop went to Rome on
church business, hoping also to obtain some
rest and recuperation. He was born in Balt
more, Dec ID. 1884, was graduated at Mount ST.
Mary Emmitsburg, in 1883, and then adopted
the profession of medicine, following his
fathers and grandfather's example. But after
practicng year he became an ecclesiastical
student at the Urban College, Rome, and was